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At the time, Black students could attend no law school specifically in the state. Gaines cited that the refusal violated the Fourteenth Amendment. The State of Missouri had offered to pay for Gaines's tuition at an adjacent state's law school, which he turned down. Gaines, assisted by the NAACP, sued the all-white university in 1935.
Missouri v. Jenkins, 515 U.S. 70 (1995), is a case decided by the United States Supreme Court.On June 12, 1995 the Court, in a 5–4 decision, reversed a district court ruling that required the state of Missouri to correct intentional racial discrimination in Kansas City schools by funding salary increases and remedial education programs.
Lastly, Frank distinguished Gaines's case from Murray by noting that that state's Court of Appeals had found that Maryland had made no provisions for establishing a law school for black students and did not financially support those who attended law school out of state, unlike Missouri. He believed that the construction of a law school for ...
Missouri v. Galin E. Frye , 566 U.S. 134 (2012), was a case in which the United States Supreme Court ruled that attorneys of criminal defendants have the duty to communicate plea bargains offered to the accused.
Muldrow sued the Department and the Police Captain in Missouri state court for violations of Title VII, as well as state law. The Department removed the case to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. The trial court granted summary judgment to the Department because it found Muldrow did not suffer a materially ...
The action comes as the Missouri Attorney General’s Office said it planned to continue its petition for a court injunction to close the school, which opened near Stockton in 1996.
Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia, Inc. v. Comer, 582 U.S. 449 (2017), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that a Missouri program that denied a grant to a religious school for playground resurfacing, while providing grants to similarly situated non-religious groups, violated the freedom of religion guaranteed by the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment to ...
The university rejected the request, citing university and state regulations prohibiting the use of the public space for worship, as a violation of the Establishment Clause. Cornerstone filed suit in United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri, and the district court issued a summary judgement in favor of the University. [2]